A Daring Pursuit (Ruthless Rivals) by Kate Bateman

Author:Kate Bateman [Bateman, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781250801609
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Published: 2022-05-23T18:30:00+00:00

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Tristan gazed at Carys’s profile and wished, for perhaps the hundredth time, that he could read her thoughts.

It was only as they’d toured the house that he’d realized how impatient he was to hear her opinion of everything, how desperate he was for her to approve. His heart had been in his throat as she’d gazed around each of the rooms, and he’d found himself analyzing her every expression, searching for a frown of distaste or a glimmer of delight.

As he’d watched her take in the green walls of the mistress’s suite an idea so shocking came to him that he felt as though he’d been punched in the chest.

He’d never envisaged Lavinia Purser here with him.

But he’d imagined Carys a thousand times, in every single room.

Each time he’d made a decision, some distant part of his brain had wondered: Would Carys like this? He’d chosen green for those walls because the color was the most beautiful against her red hair. Because he’d once teased her so much when they were younger, taunting her that her bedroom was probably “a disgusting, girly shade of pink,” that she’d been goaded into telling him the real color.

And ever since he’d been old enough to fantasize about making love to her, he’d had the clearest image of all that glorious, fiery hair of hers spread out around her head against a blanket of that celadon green. Every time she wore a dress that color it drove him mad. She’d worn one to his sister’s wedding, and he’d spent the entire service thinking about dragging her into the vestry and kissing her senseless.

A hot flush warmed his body as he forced himself to face an uncomfortable possibility. Had he secretly—almost unconsciously—built this house for her? For them?

Ridiculous.

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